I'm A Word Wizard Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. His wives were Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn, and Mary Welsh Hemingway. Since marrying his first wife in 1921, the longest he went without a wife was only about a year.

Some of his best known novels are "A Farewell to Arms" (1929), "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940), and "The Old Man and the Sea" (1951). "The Old Man and the Sea" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953. In 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. On July 2, 1961, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

He was 61 years old. His father, his brother, and one of his sisters also killed themselves.

Answer: Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He married Marguerite McClure in 1947 and they stayed married until her death in 2003. They had four daughters. He is best known for his fantasy and science fiction work. Some of his best known works include "The Martian Chronicles" (1950), "The Illustrated Man" (1951), and "Fahrenheit 451" (1953).

He died on June 5, 2012, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 91.

Answer: Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas's birth name was Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie. He was born on July 24, 1802, in Villers-Cotterźts, Aisne, France. His father, who was born in modern day Haiti, was the son of a French nobleman and a black slave. Some of Alexandre's most popular books include "The Three Musketeers" (1844) and "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1844-45). Along with novels, he also wrote some plays.

He died on December 5, 1870 at the age of 68.

Answer: Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevich ("Leo") Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828 near Tula, Russia. He married Sophia Behera in 1862. They had thirteen children, five of whom died before reaching the age of eight. He also had one son by a serf that worked for him. Some of his best known works includes the novels "War and Peace" (1869) and "Anna Karenina" (1877).

Many of his nonfiction works centered on philosophy. He died of pneumonia on November 20, 1910 at the age of 82.

Answer: Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797 in Somers Town, London. She married fellow writer Percy Shelley in 1816. They had four children, three of which died as children. She is best known for "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", which was published in 1818. Her husband drowned in 1822 when his sailing boat sank. She died on February 1, 1851 from a brain tumor at age 53. years old.

Answer: William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865 in Sandymount, Ireland. Even though he proposed multiple times to Maud Gonne, she ended up marrying another man. In 1917, he married Georgie Hyde-Lees, who was 27 years younger than him. They had two children.

In 1923, Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for a number of poems, including "The Second Coming", "Sailing to Byzantium", and "The Tower". He also wrote plays and some stories. He died in France on January 28, 1939 at the age of 73.

Answer: William Golding

William Golding was born on September 19, 1911 in Newquay, England. In 1939, he married Ann Brookfield. They had two children. In 1940, he joined the Army. He took part in the Normandy invasion on D-Day. He is best known for the novel "Lord of the Flies", which was published in 1954.

He also wrote some plays, poems, and nonfiction. He won the Booker Prize in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He died at the age of 81 on June 19, 1993.

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother died when he was young. After her death, he went to live with John and Frances Allan. In 1835, he married his cousin, Virginia Clemm, who was thirteen years younger than him.

She died in 1847 when she was 24. Her death affected Poe really badly. He is best known for many poems, such as "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven", and short stories, including "The Tell-Tale Heart". He died on October 7, 1849 at the age of 40. There are many mysteries concerning his death.

Answer: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Landport, England. In 1836, he married Catherine Thomson Hogarth. They had ten children. They separated in 1858, mostly because he was having an affair with Ellen Ternan, who was 27 years younger than him.

Many of his novels were published in weekly or monthly installments. Some of his best known work include "A Christmas Carol" (1843), "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859), and "Great Expectations" (1860-61). He died on June 9, 1870 from a stroke. He was 58 years old.

Answer: Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 in Steventon, England. She had seven siblings. She was closest to her one sister, Cassandra. She is best known for "Sense and Sensibility" (1811), "Pride and Prejudice" (1813), and "Emma" (1815). In 1816, she became ill, most likely with bovine tuberculosis. She died on July 18, 1817 when she was 41 years old.